Windows Lib O.o

ID:265396
 
Apr 12 2005, 6:37 am
Uhhh how well would a windows lib work on byond. I know they have the current text to screen and stuff with ballon text and chat boxes. But Im talking about a byond lib that would be like windows. Like CreateWin(topx,topy,width,height). That would basically create a window of a specific height with a close button a minimize button a maximize button. They window object would also be resizable and moving the whole window.

I take this would take alot of overhead and would be just better to make a full fledged windows program using C++ and like Win32 API's.
Apr 12 2005, 11:26 am
 
datum/window
    var
        name=""
        body=""
        width=100;height=100
        handle="default"
        target
    proc/refresh()
        var/header="<html><head><title>[window.name]</title></head><body>
        var/options="window=[window.handle];size=[width]x[height]"
        target<<browse("[header][window.body]</body></html>",options)
proc/CreateWin(width,height,handle,target)
    window=new
    window.target=target;window.handle=handle
    window.width=width;window.height=height

HTML is your friend, and the browse function makes use of it. That's about the best you are going to get for actual window creation.

If you want virtual windows in the map view, that is going to be much more complicated and not as pretty though still not too awefully complicated.

The things you mentioned that are already done just stick a bunch of objects on the screen with the desired icons.